NRIM vs. HTBI, SBT, FMAO, WSBF, CVLY, PDLB, KRNY, BCBP, NFBK, and FGBI
Should you be buying Northrim BanCorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northrim BanCorp include HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Kearny Financial (KRNY), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), and First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
HomeTrust Bancshares (NASDAQ:HTBI) and Northrim BanCorp (NASDAQ:NRIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking and earnings.
HomeTrust Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Northrim BanCorp. HomeTrust Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northrim BanCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HomeTrust Bancshares has a net margin of 20.87% compared to HomeTrust Bancshares' net margin of 17.19%. HomeTrust Bancshares' return on equity of 12.66% beat Northrim BanCorp's return on equity.
HomeTrust Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Northrim BanCorp pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. HomeTrust Bancshares pays out 12.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northrim BanCorp pays out 47.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. HomeTrust Bancshares has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Northrim BanCorp has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Northrim BanCorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
HomeTrust Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.61%. Given Northrim BanCorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe HomeTrust Bancshares is more favorable than Northrim BanCorp.
60.9% of HomeTrust Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of Northrim BanCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of HomeTrust Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Northrim BanCorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
HomeTrust Bancshares has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northrim BanCorp has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HomeTrust Bancshares received 1 more outperform votes than Northrim BanCorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.21% of users gave Northrim BanCorp an outperform vote while only 55.16% of users gave HomeTrust Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, HomeTrust Bancshares had 7 more articles in the media than Northrim BanCorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for HomeTrust Bancshares and 1 mentions for Northrim BanCorp. HomeTrust Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Northrim BanCorp's score of 0.74 indicating that Northrim BanCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
HomeTrust Bancshares beats Northrim BanCorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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